wait-for-localhost
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Wait for localhost to be ready
Useful if you need a local server to be ready to accept requests before doing other things.
npm install wait-for-localhost
import waitForLocalhost from 'wait-for-localhost';
await waitForLocalhost({port: 8080});
console.log('Server is ready');
Returns a Promise<object> that settles when localhost is ready.
The object contains a ipVersion property with a value of either 6 or 4 depending on the IP version that was used.
Type: object
Type: number
Default: 80
Type: string
Default: '/'
Use a custom path.
For example, /health for a health-check endpoint.
Type: boolean
Default: false
Use the GET HTTP-method instead of HEAD to check if the server is running.
Type: number[]
Default: [200]
HTTP status codes to consider as successful responses.
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Wait for localhost to be ready
The npm package wait-for-localhost receives a total of 2,417 weekly downloads. As such, wait-for-localhost popularity was classified as popular.
We found that wait-for-localhost demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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